Lydia Lunch's second book will provoke rage, awe, and infectious desire.

"Lydia Lunch is an American icon."
--Austin American-Statesman

"Hubert Selby, Jr. famously said that he grew up feeling like a scream without a mouth. Lydia Lunch, one of his most celebrated--and most uncompromising--literary progeny, delivered scream mouth, teeth, blood, hair, sperm, knife, and adrenaline . . ."
--Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

No Wave founder Lydia Lunch's first book, Paradoxia proved that her presence is as strong on the page as it is on the stage. Her literary talents are even more impressive and varied in this iconoclastic and uncompromising collection. Whether crafting personal essays, short fiction, or interviews with fellow antiheroes Hubert Selby Jr. and Nick Tosches, Lunch dazzles in her ability to provoke discomfort and awe, terror and hope.

Lydia Lunch is a musician, writer, and photographer. She was the primary instigator of the No Wave movement, and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression.

Praise for Paradoxia:

"Strangely honest rantings from a modern-day Genet."
--Kirkus Reviews

"A gritty, autobiographical tale of hedonistic excess through three decades."
--Los Angeles Times

"Lunch has defined the underground music and art scene for over thirty years. Predictable only in her unpredictability, she has exploited every creative outlet at her disposal, from film to books, photography to poetry."
--SF Weekly